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by lhnz 9y ago
Are there historical records of the Islamic Empire having all of the inventions and scientific knowledge that came to Europe in the Renaissance, or are you talking about specific preliminary discoveries?
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by lhnz 9y ago
That is true. If crimes are being reported to them which are not reported to the police, that is a problem.
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> rather than waiting for the Metropolitan Police to write > to them expressing concern that Uber's policies of refusing > to report crimes and obstructionist approach towards > police investigations may have lea
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by lhnz 9y ago
> mostly administrative failures on Uber's part where > other minicab companies are more cooperative with > the license requirements. But TfL inspectors gave Uber the green light ten times [0] including recently b
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by lhnz 9y ago
The thing is, in JavaScript, unless you are extremely rigid about how you program, it is very easy to cause bugs. It is basically a language which trains you to try to err on the side of caution. It's often preferable to be religious w
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In London all of the high-paid tech work is through consulting. You should be making in between £500 and £700 per day. It's not that bad.
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It's also very important when building long-running applications (e.g. electron applications).
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Perhaps you could run the type-checker separately on a 'prepush' hook.
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by lhnz 9y ago
The problem is people creating different data architectures on every single project they create. Redux specifies a unidirectional data flow with a single source of truth. And then it gives you very detailed tooling with which to debug this,
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by lhnz 9y ago
Er, yeah, a more legible description is "virtue cheap talking" and not "virtue signalling". But it's quite likely that usage of the latter term has always been a sarcastic jibe about the fraudulent/low-investme
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by lhnz 9y ago
> But people doing so ought to take a good hard look > at themselves and why they choose to spend their time > and energy on this cause rather than others. I somewhat agree with this but I think it's generally due
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by lhnz 9y ago
@matt4077: > Here's an analogy, a term I abhor for the > same reason: "mansplaining". > > It's a similarly cheap and unfair argument, because > it's completely generic and can be used in
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by lhnz 9y ago
Oh, sorry, I thought you believed the article was written about Charlottesville due to its chronology, but instead you think that the article literally implies support for Charlottesville through its content. Can you explain to us how an ar
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by lhnz 9y ago
Good response. I do agree with Sam Bowman that the term is often misused (and that it doesn't make as much sense as it should since the word 'signalling' is meant to refer to costly signals and not 'cheap talk'), ho
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This was posted on the 18th of July. The Charlottesville rally is not relevant.
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It's not loaded. These terms are synonymous. The word is an apt description of something very real and very common [0]: people hiding their greatest moral failings behind ultimately empty virtuous performances. It's unsurprising t
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by lhnz 9y ago
Are you also against the terms 'hypocrite' and 'cheap talk'?
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by lhnz 9y ago
That is my point though: as sexism reduced women joined high status industries to take jobs that require high verbal intelligence. They didn't join programming despite it being a high growth industry: why? I'd source this but what
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by lhnz 9y ago
This is how I remember it in the UK, too. Computers were incredibly uncool and only people with zero interest in being cool were willing to invest their time in learning about them. If anything, these people were crowded out from lots of ot
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by lhnz 9y ago
No, what I'm saying is that you can't have a discussion between two groups of people and then through the back-door one side tries to get the other to subconsciously accept their principle of 'absolute free-speech'. You
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This, but I also think we can't just do this in a pure "freedom of speech" way. In order to have a space where we can talk about things calmly and respectfully we will need to shut-out "bad faith" actors, supremacis
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by lhnz 9y ago
* Micromanagement of skilled people. * Over-investing when things have gone badly wrong, and being sluggish to invest in a team which is having success. * Hiring unskilled engineers to develop features which are meant t
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> I refuse to be squelched because some > Neo Nazi could use my words against me. You misunderstand again. I said that violent or smearing actions done for sound moral reasons can and are used to publicise and win support fo
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> frankly, I have a hard time coming to terms with > people self describing as 'moderates' who voted > for Trump, that is some kind of cognitive dissonance. > Trump is about as far away from moderate as it g
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by lhnz 9y ago
I've moved from "he's a total idiot who is unwilling to distance himself from the most backwards views of some of his supporters" to "he's a total idiot who's actually causing even deeper polarization sinc
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by lhnz 9y ago
The responses to your comment prove his point not yours. There is literal polarisation within this thread.
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Diversity seminars and population distribution memos are fine. People ought to be allowed to take their personal opinions and speak them at their workplace. What isn't fine is attempting to cause economic harm to someone for espousing
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by lhnz 9y ago
I'm sorry but a `reducer` isn't a 90s-era Java concept at all [0], and you don't actually need to use any of those other things. This is beyond ridiculous. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold_(higher-o
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React was released in 2013. Redux was released in 2015. If you'd picked them then you've had a very long amount of time using the same tools.
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> I don't really understand why Google engineers would assume > that they should have free rein to debate company policies, > on company networks and on company time...? The memo was in response to a request on the

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